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Radios turned Guitar Amps

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Here is the place to post photos and information on how to convert vintage electronics into awesome sounding and really cool guitar amps.

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Sony not working

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Zenith C845

Started by James Pobog. Last reply by James Pobog Nov 22, 2019. 1 Reply

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Comment by 3 String Blues on September 16, 2014 at 6:46am

also, once you find the right categories and keywords, be sure to hit "save favorite search"  then you will get an email with only the new stuff...that will help you save a lot of time in your daily search

Comment by 3 String Blues on September 14, 2014 at 8:38am

Steven, you need to use the - (negative) after the keyword when using ebay,

that way you don't pull up what you don't want to look thru...plus persistenece, I do spend about 45 mintes every day looking at stupid crap I cant weave out!...dumb phones and cd players from china pop up in my serach!!!..its just figuring out how the search engines work

Comment by 3 String Blues on September 14, 2014 at 8:34am

sweet radio omar!

Comment by Omar Mariani on September 13, 2014 at 12:35am

My new amp.

Comment by Steven B Brittain on September 10, 2014 at 4:29pm
Beetle can you give me some hints on how to search and weed out stuff. I am always trying find small speaker drivers to replace bad ones too for the radio amps. Hard to find at decent price.
Comment by 3 String Blues on September 10, 2014 at 11:27am

...there is so much good stuff on ebay...just have to play around with keywords as there is like 30,000 hits on "old Radios" you have try to narrow it down to the good stuff!

I have a shower curtain that I have saving for a project ( the outer fabric part, not the plastic iner) its similar texture to that old tweed...just waiting for the right project

Comment by Doug Christensen on September 10, 2014 at 10:56am

I've been on the look out for some cool speaker fabric at the local "women's sewing store" and have found some nice material, but last weekend at Hobby Lobby came across a real nice fabric in the window treatment isle. It's the stuff you put behind the heavy material next to the window. They had this grey-silver metallic sheer see through (whoo whoo), the stuff I bought was this salt & pepper looking link..    http://shop.hobbylobby.com/products/brown-woven-decorative-panel-wi... w/ the online store coupon it was 12 bucks.

BettleJuice.that wood is in great condition. Some dash restorers can re-chrome plastic on old cars. Anyway that one hell of a cool find man! Makes most of my stuff look space age. 

Comment by 3 String Blues on September 10, 2014 at 8:53am

Tweed is in..at least if you keep it long enough it'll be back in style!

Comment by 3 String Blues on September 7, 2014 at 9:00am

Holy Cow Look at this cool Radio beggin to be a Rat Rod Guitar Amp....look to be from the 30's how could you miss the era!!! Old timey grill right there!!!!

Comment by 3 String Blues on September 4, 2014 at 4:22am

whooa check this cool thing out! Its a 1954 Radio just begging to be hacked into a guitar amp!

 

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